Hello Azure! In this talk you'll learn about the broad service offerings of Microsoft
Azure. All the pieces, Compute, Data, App and
Network Services; combine to provide one powerful enterprise-grade cloud
platform you can trust.

Mobile

Have an idea for a Mobile App but don't want to focus on building out your own back-end
resources. You're in luck! Microsoft Azure Mobile Services abstracts away
Storage, Security, Notifications, and Scalability to let you focus on implementing
the features of your mobile app.

PaaS/Networking

Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service offerings include both Cloud Services and Websites.
Learn how to harness the power of PaaS to build your next Website or Web
Application.

Microsoft Azure Websites is the fastest way to build for the Cloud providing a highly
scalable enterprise-ready environment. In this talk learn how Azure Websites
enables you to build applications with your language/framework of choice and deploy
with ease.

Media

Whether you're hosting a major televised event or hosting video for a plethora of
devices, Microsoft Azure Media Services is for you. Built with Scale in mind enabling
you to store, encode, protect and package audio or video content for on-demand and
live streaming. Learn how to interact with the Player Framework and SDKs.

Identity & Access Management

ADAL Library, O365 Library, Odata Services, .NET & Java

Integration and Hybrid Workloads

Building Applications that need connectivity into your on-premises data center? Not
to worry, we've got you covered. Microsoft Azure has a number of different solutions
for integrating with your existing
applications or environments including VPN and Message Queuing technologies.

Data

It is rare to see a modern application which doesn't require the storage of Data.
Microsoft Azure has many ways to fulfill your storage needs be it Relational, Non-Relational
or needed far and wide we've got you covered. Needed that data
crunched yesterday? No time to set up an environment? Microsoft Azure HD Insight has
you covered for all your Big Data needs. Spin up a cluster in a matter of minutes,
pull it down just as fast.

Big Data

Needed that data crunched yesterday? No time to set up an environment? Microsoft Azure
HD Insight has you covered for all your Big Data needs. Spin up a cluster in a matter
of minutes, pull it down just as fast.

When we create certain sized VMs, the NICs associated with them are throttled for
Outbound traffic. Here’s some numbers that were originally published from a little
while ago (may have changed since, but these give you a guide):

Welcome back folks to a beautiful 2014 and I had an interesting one while going through
a Cloud Solution Design
I came across this document The Notorious Nine Cloud Computing Top Threats
in 2013 and I thought I’d talk through these concerns one by one.

Data Breaches - this issue can occur on many levels and I don’t
think it’s just limited to ‘Cloud’ per se – it could be your insurance company down
the road,
the doctor, dentist etc. and we’ve all seen those TV shows where the ‘hustlers’ go
through someone’s trash to pull out key gems of information to unlock the scam.

Interestingly in the paper, the university of North Carolina Chapel Hill came up with
a technique to steal data from a VM running as one of many within the same host, with
the ‘unis VM’ able
to steal data being transmitted through the other VMs. This was performed through
a combination of monitoring various known factors of the host,
such as thread scheduling, L1 cache and power. The paper highlighted that currently
the virtualisation technologies need to do more about isolation.

Data Loss – Cloud and non-cloud users fall foul of this with Cloud
typically being a target for hackers. Geo-Replication, backups and Government policies
on data and it’s storage all help here.
Encryption could be something that you may want to employ to ensure some protection
over the copies of data now present.

Account Hijacking – gaining unlawful access to account details such
as user/pass combination. Amazon in 2010 was foul to a cross site scripting bug that
allowed 3rd parties to get access
to user/pass credentials. With the explosion on the Cloud keeping your credentials
safe becomes that much more important. Also changing passwords frequently would be
a good habit
to get into.

The other interesting point here to note is that if your account is indeed hijacked
then it maybe sometime until the hackers exploit this.

Gaining access to someone’s account doesn’t have to be a hi-tech solution either.
As in the movie Sneakers all that was required was a dinner conversation for the voice
password
”My voice is my passport”

Insecure APIs – Cloud based APIs form the under pinning of many software
and services available today. Essentially ensure these APIs are secure to the best
possible effort and
while they may not be compromised, are they able to stand DDOS attacks for e.g.

Denial of Service – With the advent of the Cloud and cloud services,
these attacks could for e.g. hit your Cloud based website causing it to be unresponsive,
but you’re still being
billed for the usage. Also within Microsoft Azure web site configurations we can now
add DDOS settings to indicate when the underlying load balancer should throttle the
requests coming
from a particular rogue client.

Malicious Insiders – the focus here is both internal, hosted and
Cloud based solutions. Policies and procedures are more important within the Cloud
space – what procedures does your
provider follow? Who can access the encryption keys? where are they stored? etc.

Abuse of Cloud Services – The Cloud possesses many servers, elastic
scale and dynamic compute power, making it the perfect platform
for a bot-net to spin up in and get to work. Azure limits default subscriptions to
20 cores, more are available upon request.

Insufficient Due Diligence – Don’t jump into the Cloud platform without
examining the offer. Many hosting providers have added the word ‘Cloud’ to the front
of their names as in ‘Cloud Hosting Providers’ with the underlying process and infrastructure
the same, with the same vulnerabilities.

In this space Azure has many ratified processes that get re-certified each year with
some of these processes available to military grade specification.

Cloud is big business for Microsoft and getting things like this wrong would be a
true achilles heel.

Shared Technology Issues – as Cloud providers share underlying technologies
from CPUs, Services, Storage and other services. If these are exposed then so is your
platform potentially.

Talk to you soon.

Mick.

Azure: Notorious 9 Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,83cb80e1-bf7b-4ce2-978c-c21383d65910.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2014/01/15/AzureNotorious9CloudComputingTopThreatsIn2013.aspx
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:07:07 GMT<p>
<strong>My take and some answers on it</strong> – <a href="http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats/">http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats/</a>
</p>
<p>
Welcome back folks to a beautiful 2014 and I had an interesting one while going through
a Cloud Solution Design<br>
I came across this document <strong>The Notorious Nine Cloud Computing Top Threats
in 2013</strong> and I thought I’d talk through these concerns one by one.
</p>
<ol>
<li>
<strong>Data Breaches -</strong>&nbsp; this issue can occur on many levels and I don’t
think it’s just limited to ‘Cloud’ per se – it could be your insurance company down
the road,
<br>
the doctor, dentist etc. and we’ve all seen those TV shows where the ‘hustlers’ go
through someone’s trash to pull out key gems of information to unlock the scam.<br>
<br>
Interestingly in the paper, the university of North Carolina Chapel Hill came up with
a technique to steal data from a VM running as one of many within the same host, with
the ‘unis VM’ able<br>
to steal data being transmitted through the other VMs. This was performed through
a combination of monitoring various known factors of the host,
<br>
such as thread scheduling, L1 cache and power. The paper highlighted that currently
the virtualisation technologies need to do more about isolation.<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Data Loss – </strong>Cloud and non-cloud users fall foul of this with Cloud
typically being a target for hackers. Geo-Replication, backups and Government policies
on data and it’s storage all help here.<br>
Encryption could be something that you may want to employ to ensure some protection
over the copies of data now present.<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Account Hijacking – </strong>gaining unlawful access to account details such
as user/pass combination. Amazon in 2010 was foul to a cross site scripting bug that
allowed 3rd parties to get access<br>
to user/pass credentials. With the explosion on the Cloud keeping your credentials
safe becomes that much more important. Also changing passwords frequently would be
a good habit<br>
to get into.<br>
<br>
The other interesting point here to note is that if your account is indeed hijacked
then it maybe sometime until the hackers exploit this.<br>
<br>
Gaining access to someone’s account doesn’t have to be a hi-tech solution either.
As in the movie Sneakers all that was required was a dinner conversation for the voice
password<br>
”My voice is my passport”<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Insecure APIs – </strong>Cloud based APIs form the under pinning of many software
and services available today. Essentially ensure these APIs are secure to the best
possible effort and
<br>
while they may not be compromised, are they able to stand DDOS attacks for e.g.<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Denial of Service – </strong>With the advent of the Cloud and cloud services,
these attacks could for e.g. hit your Cloud based website causing it to be unresponsive,
but you’re still being<br>
billed for the usage. Also within Microsoft Azure web site configurations we can now
add DDOS settings to indicate when the underlying load balancer should throttle the
requests coming<br>
from a particular rogue client.<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Malicious Insiders – </strong>the focus here is both internal, hosted and
Cloud based solutions. Policies and procedures are more important within the Cloud
space – what procedures does your
<br>
provider follow? Who can access the encryption keys? where are they stored? etc.<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Abuse of Cloud Services – </strong>The Cloud possesses many servers, elastic
scale and dynamic compute power, making it the perfect platform<br>
for a bot-net to spin up in and get to work. Azure limits default subscriptions to
20 cores, more are available upon request.<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Insufficient Due Diligence – </strong>Don’t jump into the Cloud platform without
examining the offer. Many hosting providers have added the word ‘Cloud’ to the front
of their names as in ‘Cloud Hosting Providers’ with the underlying process and infrastructure
the same, with the same vulnerabilities.<br>
<br>
In this space Azure has many ratified processes that get re-certified each year with
some of these processes available to military grade specification.<br>
<br>
Cloud is big business for Microsoft and getting things like this wrong would be a
true achilles heel.<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Shared Technology Issues – </strong>as Cloud providers share underlying technologies
from CPUs, Services, Storage and other services. If these are exposed then so is your
platform potentially.
</li>
</ol>
<p>
</p>
<p>
Talk to you soon.
</p>
<p>
Mick.
</p>
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Just home from a great week that was in relation to Microsoft’s Integration strategy
for both on-prem and cloud solutions.

The first part of the week was the MVP Summit and it’s always great to catch up with
the fellow crew and solve the world’s problems over a beer or two. Very positive things
came from that….a headache :)

By the time the summit was on, there were brain’s buzzing with activity.

The Summit

The first day of the 2 day summit was spent by the Product groups presenting on what’s
new, the roadmap, the vision and how the new world hangs together.

A major component to come out of this was BizTalk Services.

An Azure service that guarantees a certain performance level as well as being able
to design tranformations, EDI, EAI all at the end of a RESTful endpoint.

Development, Compiling and Deployment is all done out of a new Visual Studio
2012 Project Template.

The Azure BizTalk Services environment is guaranteed in ‘BizTalk Units’ – the BizTalk
team have done well to build a flexible feature on the Azure Fabric.

Currently there’s a range of Receive/Endpoints and ‘Destinations’ (Send Ports) that
the platform supports – watch this space as more will be added no doubt.

Later in the summit we also learnt that the XBOX One Team uses BizTalk Services
to process orders (& others) across the world.

BizTalk Services Performance for the XBOX One team.

Some great numbers going through BizTalk Server for a US Healthcare provider.

With the Impack alliance hard at work as always showing our capabilities thanks to
Matricis, Breeze and Codit

The favourite US pastime that I was fortunate enough to go to thanks to Kent Weare
whom organised a troop of us.

BizTalk 2013: BizTalk Summit Wrap Uphttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,8c3c1ca9-8eba-4242-b2e3-fe53f76dd848.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2013/11/25/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp.aspx
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:10:07 GMT<p>
Just home from a great week that was in relation to Microsoft’s Integration strategy
for both on-prem and cloud solutions.
</p>
<p>
The first part of the week was the MVP Summit and it’s always great to catch up with
the fellow crew and solve the world’s problems over a beer or two. Very positive things
came from that….a headache :)
</p>
<p>
By the time the summit was on, there were brain’s buzzing with activity.
</p>
<p>
<strong>The Summit</strong>
</p>
<p>
The first day of the 2 day summit was spent by the Product groups presenting on what’s
new, the roadmap, the vision and how the new world hangs together.
</p>
<p>
A major component to come out of this was <strong>BizTalk Services</strong>.
</p>
<p>
An Azure service that guarantees a certain performance level as well as being able
to design tranformations, EDI, EAI all at the end of a RESTful endpoint.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/image_2.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/image_thumb.png" width="640" height="440"></a>&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
<strong>Development, Compiling and Deployment is all done out of a new Visual Studio
2012 Project Template.</strong>
</p>
<p>
The Azure BizTalk Services environment is guaranteed in ‘BizTalk Units’ – the BizTalk
team have done well to build a flexible feature on the Azure Fabric.
</p>
<p>
Currently there’s a range of Receive/Endpoints and ‘Destinations’ (Send Ports) that
the platform supports – watch this space as more will be added no doubt.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/image_4.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/image_thumb_1.png" width="640" height="235"></a>
</p>
<p>
Later in the summit we also learnt that the <strong>XBOX One Team uses BizTalk Services
to process orders (&amp; others) across the world.</strong>
</p>
<p>
BizTalk Services Performance for the XBOX One team.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/WP_20131122_018%20(1)_2.jpg"><img title="WP_20131122_018 (1)" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline" border="0" alt="WP_20131122_018 (1)" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/WP_20131122_018%20(1)_thumb.jpg" width="644" height="364"></a>
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
Some great numbers going through BizTalk Server for a US Healthcare provider.
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/WP_20131121_012_2.jpg"><img title="BizTalk Services Throughput" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline" border="0" alt="BizTalk Services Throughput" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/WP_20131121_012_thumb.jpg" width="270" height="480"></a>&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
<br>
With the Impack alliance hard at work as always showing our capabilities thanks to
Matricis, Breeze and Codit
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/image_8.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalk2013BizTalkSummitWrapUp_11B72/image_thumb_3.png" width="496" height="480"></a>
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
The favourite US pastime that I was fortunate enough to go to thanks to Kent Weare
whom organised a troop of us.
</p>
<p>
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</p>
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I received an email in the early hours of this morning right when Arsenal just slotted
one home in the Champions League…and I thought…”Can this moment get any better?” –
YOU BET! My MVP re-award email came through :)

Big thanks to the folks at Microsoft for bestowing this award to me again (9th year
running) and being given the chance to be part of a great knowledgeable MVP community.

The real thanks goes to you guys in the community of which I try to make a difference
in the Azure Space. With cloud offerings changing every other week (it feels like),
it’s almost a full time job keeping on top of things. New numbers, bigger limits,
faster storage, different ways to manage traffic, connections, deployments, code platforms…
and the list goes on.

Thanks to each and all of you for making this award possible in this great country
– Australia (down under, Oz… and any other name you know it as)

Boom!!

or as a friend says ‘Ka-Boom!’

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Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:45:44 GMT<p>
I received an email in the early hours of this morning right when Arsenal just slotted
one home in the Champions League…and I thought…”Can this moment get any better?” –
YOU BET! My MVP re-award email came through :)
</p>
<p>
Big thanks to the folks at Microsoft for bestowing this award to me again (9th year
running) and being given the chance to be part of a great knowledgeable MVP community.
</p>
<p>
The real thanks goes to you guys in the community of which I try to make a difference
in the Azure Space. With cloud offerings changing every other week (it feels like),
it’s almost a full time job keeping on top of things. New numbers, bigger limits,
faster storage, different ways to manage traffic, connections, deployments, code platforms…
and the list goes on.
</p>
<p>
Thanks to each and all of you for making this award possible in this great country
– Australia (down under, Oz… and any other name you know it as)
</p>
<p>
<img src="http://adminframework.mvpaward.com/images/mvplogo.jpg">
</p>
<p>
Boom!!
</p>
<p>
or as a friend says ‘Ka-Boom!’
</p>
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A great feature I came across recently where we can limit dynamically limit IP addresses
based on Request Rates and other aspects of the Requests.

In preparation for a talk I’m giving soon I thought I’d show a quick walkthrough of
setting up the newer BizTalk Services (preview) in Azure.

In order to setup BizTalk Services it helps to have the following
things created first (the BizTalk Services creation wizard will walk you creating
a few of them,
but it failed for me many times, so easier to create them prior)

A Storage account in the region where the BizTalk Services are to be located.

An Azure SQL Server in which to create a Tracking Database on.

An Access Control Service Namespace – do this through Azure Management –> Active
Directory.

The BizTalk Services Creation Wizard will ask you for a User/Pass in which to interact
with ACS through – the simple approach
is to use the ManagementClient user + pass. (it’s auto created for
you :))

An Exported X509 Certificate with Private Keys present – a *.pfx
file.
NOTE – the Subject name must match your BizTalk Services ServiceName
** The Cert should not have an expiry of more than 5 years! **

So far…so good, opened up the wizard and filled in Page 1 details – note I decided
to create a SQL Server here (I’d actually forgotten the password of another one we
use)

It’s also important to note the Region – WEST US. (make sure that
whatever else you create is in that region as well, otherwise things might take *alot*
longer
than anticipated.

Wizard - Page 2

Time to hit NEXT Arrow – all pretty straight forward.

Wizard – Page 3

The Access Control Namespace was something I created earlier and the ManagementClient user
is an auto created user in ACS.
(I omitted the password here – but you get that from the ACS management portal).

Locations – all important.

Wizard – Page 4

Finally the SSL Certificate with the Expiry of no more than 5 years.

The important thing here is that clients will connect to BizTalk Services via TLS/SSL.
If this is a home grown cert – as this one is, keep in mind that clients will need
to
’trust’ this certificate.

Hit the tick and you’re on your way…

Stay tuned for the next post where we turn this into something REAL! :)

More info for you -

Windows Azure BizTalk Services or WABS (we can’t have a new thingy without a new acronym):

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Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:59:41 GMT<p>
Unexpected high traffic and high demand causes Myers website to fail…..
</p>
<p>
These stories are becoming more and more common place in todays world and the interesting
thing is, that we have solutions available to this exact problem in place for several
years.
</p>
<p>
Cloud – Azure – elastic scale, on-demand etc.
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
The secret is how do we go from on premise #fail to a <strong>hybrid</strong> blend
scenario where we can use the best of both worlds – that is what we’ve been doing
for years.
</p>
<p>
Read more here - <a title="http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/traffic-causes-myer-stocktake-fail-let%27s-talk-cloud.aspx" href="http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/traffic-causes-myer-stocktake-fail-let%27s-talk-cloud.aspx">http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/traffic-causes-myer-stocktake-fail-let%27s-talk-cloud.aspx</a>
</p>
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Wow – look what I found earlier today?

The starting point of a great cloud platform enabling REST Endpoints, transforms (aka
maps) and many other EDI – “BizTalkie things”

In a very common scenario, I could have:

a) a RESTful endpoint

b) one or more transforms

c) a RESTful exit point (or it could be a request , response)

Given that it’s part of Azure, then all this magic would be taking place within my
DC local to the bulk of my data and services.

Then we can always use the other Azure widgets such as ServiceBus, Queues, Tables,
VPNs, etc etc.

Stay tuned for some posts in this area in the near future…

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Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:37:31 GMT<p>
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</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
Wow – look what I found earlier today?
</p>
<p>
The starting point of a great cloud platform enabling REST Endpoints, transforms (aka
maps) and many other EDI – “BizTalkie things”
</p>
<p>
In a very common scenario, I could have:
</p>
<p>
a) a RESTful endpoint
</p>
<p>
b) one or more transforms
</p>
<p>
c) a RESTful exit point (or it could be a request , response)
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
Given that it’s part of Azure, then all this magic would be taking place within my
DC local to the bulk of my data and services.
</p>
<p>
Then we can always use the other Azure widgets such as ServiceBus, Queues, Tables,
VPNs, etc etc.
</p>
<p>
Stay tuned for some posts in this area in the near future…
</p>
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Well folks I’ve been greeted with the news that Microsoft Windows Azure will
be in 2 geo-replicated places here on Australian soil, coming ‘shortly’.

As an Azure MVP & from Breeze (a
leading Microsoft Cloud Partner) perspective we invest heavily in cloud technologies.

What does this mean and why should I care? I hear you ask… good question
and I asked the same.

As most of you know I have a passion for Integration, sticking all sorts of things
together from small RFID devices, hand made hand-held devices, raspberry PIs through
to high end ERP, Financials & many other types of systems. So before I get to
the WHY aspect, let me briefly set the context.

Integration Costs to rise by 33% by 2016,
more than half of new system development costs will be spent on Integration

By 2017, over two-thirds of all new integration
flows will extend outside the enterprise firewall.

So Integration just took on a whole new face – successful integration is about
using the right tools (in the toolbox) for the right task. Now we have a
whole new drawer in our toolbox full of Azure goodies & widgets. This functionality
is just too compelling to be ignored….

…and now that it’s on Australian soil I’d be thinking that just about every Data center
service provider should be giving you cloud functionality.

Some quick cloud advantages:

scale, provisioning and ease of use

Imagine being able to spin up a SharePoint site in the time it takes me to write this
article.

Imagine being able to ask for an extra load balanced highly available Server/Service
at the click of a button. Importantly – Imagine being able to give it back again at
the end of the weekend/day/next hour.

Not wait the typical 12 weeks for a new server to be provisioned, oh and dont mention
filling out the right forms. Running an application on those machines and getting
a firewall port opened….that’ll be another 2 weeks…and on it goes.

The much beloved Enlightenment for many companies of achieving Single Sign-On – Imagine
your customers being able to sign into your applications using their own Ids, Live
Ids, + a bunch of other Ids without you needing to provision more services. You can
house your identity accounts in Azure, locally or elsewhere – finally you don’t need
a Quantum Analyst to setup Single Sign-on.

My experiences in the last few weeks on client sites have been back in the world of
old – classic encumbered infrastructure service providers wanting to claim everything,
put the brakes on any new ideas and have meetings around such concepts of adding an
extra 10gb disk space to existing servers. These guys should be ‘can do’ people –
it’s all about choosing the right tool for the job.

Microsoft have done a great job on the developer tooling front from the classic MS
toolset through to Apple, PHP, Ruby, Phython etc. all being able to access, develop
on, publish and deploy.

We could even give a bunch of HDD drives to Olaf (our gun cyclist @ Breeze) to ride
to the Azure Data Center and offload our data, while we wait for the NBN to never
come to our area.

There are some great options on the horizon coming down the track.

So let’s say we’re keen to explore – how hard/easy is it to get ‘my’ own environment
& what does this mean.

The short answer is you get an Azure Footprint which could be running in a ‘Data Center’
in Sydney. Depending on what you’re playing with you could get:

Often the issue around alot of this is that because my beloved ‘servers’ are running
somewhere else I’m concerned over how much control we get.

We enter into the Hybrid Integration space – where as you can imagine
not *everything* is suited for the Cloud, there will be things you keep exactly as
they are. So there will be many many scenarios where – we have something running locally
as well as something running in Azure. Some options we have available are to make
our servers ‘feel at home’:

VPN connection – we can have several flavours of a VPN connection
that connect our Azure Footprint to our local network. for e.g. local
network is 10.10.x.x/16, Azure network 10.50.x.x/16. Full access to all the machines/services
and other things you have running. CRON jobs, FTP, scripts, processes, linux boxes,
samba shares, etc etc.. (I do realise the integration world is never as easy as we
see it in the magazines)

RDP Connections – standard level of service really from any Service
provider.

Remote PowerShell Access

Azure Service Bus - Applications Level Web/WCF/Restful Services connectivity.
An Application Service can run either locally or in the cloud and this feature allows
your Service to be accessed through a consistent Endpoint within the cloud, but the
calls are Relayed down to your Application Service. There’s a few different ways we
can ‘relay’ but the public endpoint could house all the clients & their device
requests, while your existing application infrastructure remains unchanged.

SQL Azure Data Sync – sync data between clouds & local from your
databases. So for many clients, come 8pm each day, their local database has all the
Orders for the day as per normal, without the usual provisioning headaches as the
business responds to new market opportunities to support smart devices.

We even get pretty graphs….

But wait there’s more…..

These details are typical performance monitor counters + diagnostic information. We
can use Azure Admin tools to import these regularly and import them into our typical
tools.

System Center does exactly this – so our ‘dashboard’ of machines will list our local
machines as well as our cloud machines. Your IT guys have visibility into what’s going
on.

We’ve been using Singapore DCs or West Coast US with pretty good performance times
across the infrastructure.

What does having a local Windows Azure Data Center mean to me:

Medical Industry – we have several medical clients allowing us to
innovate around Cloud technologies using HL7 transports. Faster time to market and
higher degrees of re-use.

Cloud Lab Manager – www.cloudlabmanager.com can
run locally for all training providers. Breeze has created an award winning cloud
based application that will certainly benefit from this piece of great news.

Creating a cloud based application is now feasible (this particular
one was due to the sensitive nature of information it carried)

And lastly I can house my MineCraft server – well it’s my 10 yr old
sons and half the school I reckon.

So for you…

Ask yourself the question – are you getting all these features from where you currently
host/run your hardware?

Lack of infrastructure and provisioning challenges shouldn’t be holding back new ideas
& business movement. iPads, smartphones, anywhere, any time access should be the
norm, not like we’re putting another person on the moon.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 02:23:00 GMT<p>
Well folks I’ve been greeted with the news that <strong>Microsoft Windows Azure will
be in 2 geo-replicated places here on Australian soil, </strong>coming ‘shortly’.
</p>
<p>
As an Azure MVP &amp; from <a href="http://www.breeze.net" target="_blank">Breeze</a> (a
leading Microsoft Cloud Partner) perspective we invest heavily in cloud technologies.
</p>
<p>
<strong>What does this mean and why should I care?</strong> I hear you ask… good question
and I asked the same.
</p>
<p>
As most of you know I have a passion for Integration, sticking all sorts of things
together from small RFID devices, hand made hand-held devices, raspberry PIs through
to high end ERP, Financials &amp; many other types of systems. So before I get to
the WHY aspect, let me briefly set the context.
</p>
<p>
There’s some great data coming out of Gartner a report which caught my eye - <a href="http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/2240173583/Gartner-Better-collaboration-for-new-era-of-application-integration">http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/2240173583/Gartner-Better-collaboration-for-new-era-of-application-integration</a> came
out with these:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<font style="background-color: #ffff00">Integration Costs to rise by 33% by 2016,
more than half of new system development costs will be spent on Integration </font>
<li>
<font style="background-color: #ffff00">By 2017, over two-thirds of all new integration
flows will extend outside the enterprise firewall.</font>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<strong>So Integration just took on a whole new face – successful integration is about
using the right tools (in the toolbox) for the right task.</strong> Now we have a
whole new drawer in our toolbox full of Azure goodies &amp; widgets. This functionality
is just too compelling to be ignored….
</p>
<p>
…and now that it’s on Australian soil I’d be thinking that just about every Data center
service provider should be giving you cloud functionality.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Some quick cloud advantages</strong>:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
scale, provisioning and ease of use
<ul>
<li>
Imagine being able to spin up a SharePoint site in the time it takes me to write this
article.<br>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/243438c96f1b_11015/image_2.png"><img title="image" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/243438c96f1b_11015/image_thumb.png" width="244" height="173"></a>
<li>
Imagine being able to ask for an extra load balanced highly available Server/Service
at the click of a button. Importantly – Imagine being able to give it back again at
the end of the weekend/day/next hour.
<br>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/243438c96f1b_11015/image_4.png"><img title="image" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/243438c96f1b_11015/image_thumb_1.png" width="244" height="95"></a>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>
Not wait the typical 12 weeks for a new server to be provisioned, oh and dont mention
filling out the right forms. Running an application on those machines and getting
a firewall port opened….that’ll be another 2 weeks…and on it goes.<br>
<li>
The much beloved Enlightenment for many companies of achieving Single Sign-On – Imagine
your customers being able to sign into your applications using their own Ids, Live
Ids, + a bunch of other Ids without you needing to provision more services. You can
house your identity accounts in Azure, locally or elsewhere – finally you don’t need
a Quantum Analyst to setup Single Sign-on.<br>
<li>
My experiences in the last few weeks on client sites have been back in the world of
old – classic encumbered infrastructure service providers wanting to claim everything,
put the brakes on any new ideas and have meetings around such concepts of adding an
extra 10gb disk space to existing servers. These guys should be ‘can do’ people –
it’s all about choosing the right tool for the job.<br>
<li>
Microsoft have done a great job on the developer tooling front from the classic MS
toolset through to Apple, PHP, Ruby, Phython etc. all being able to access, develop
on, publish and deploy.<br>
<li>
We could even give a bunch of HDD drives to Olaf (our gun cyclist @ Breeze) to ride
to the Azure Data Center and offload our data, while we wait for the NBN to never
come to our area.<br>
<li>
There are some great options on the horizon coming down the track.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<strong>So let’s say we’re keen to explore – how hard/easy is it to get ‘my’ own environment
&amp; what does this mean.</strong>
</p>
<p>
The short answer is you get an Azure Footprint which could be running in a ‘Data Center’
in Sydney. Depending on what you’re playing with you could get:
</p>
<p>
- SQL Databases, Cloud Services, Scalable Mobile Device Services, Load balanced Websites/Services/Restful
endpoints…and the list of ‘widgets’ goes on and on.
</p>
<p>
<strong>How do I interact with this environment</strong>:
</p>
<p>
Often the issue around alot of this is that because my beloved ‘servers’ are running
somewhere else I’m concerned over how much control we get.
</p>
<p>
We enter into the <strong>Hybrid Integration </strong>space – where as you can imagine
not *everything* is suited for the Cloud, there will be things you keep exactly as
they are. So there will be many many scenarios where – we have something running locally
as well as something running in Azure. Some options we have available are to make
our servers ‘feel at home’:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>VPN connection</strong> – we can have several flavours of a VPN connection
that connect our <strong>Azure Footprint</strong> to our local network. for e.g. local
network is 10.10.x.x/16, Azure network 10.50.x.x/16. Full access to all the machines/services
and other things you have running. CRON jobs, FTP, scripts, processes, linux boxes,
samba shares, etc etc.. (I do realise the integration world is never as easy as we
see it in the magazines)<br>
<li>
<strong>RDP Connections – </strong>standard level of service really from any Service
provider.<br>
<li>
<strong>Remote PowerShell Access
<br>
</strong>
<li>
<strong>Azure Service Bus - Applications Level Web/WCF/Restful Services </strong>connectivity.
An Application Service can run either locally or in the cloud and this feature allows
your Service to be accessed through a consistent Endpoint within the cloud, but the
calls are Relayed down to your Application Service. There’s a few different ways we
can ‘relay’ but the public endpoint could house all the clients &amp; their device
requests, while your existing application infrastructure remains unchanged.<br>
<li>
<strong>SQL Azure Data Sync – </strong>sync data between clouds &amp; local from your
databases. So for many clients, come 8pm each day, their local database has all the
Orders for the day as per normal, without the usual provisioning headaches as the
business responds to new market opportunities to support smart devices.<br>
<li>
<strong>We even get pretty graphs….<br>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/243438c96f1b_11015/image_6.png"><img title="image" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/243438c96f1b_11015/image_thumb_2.png" width="244" height="103"></a></strong>
<ul>
<li>
But wait there’s more…..
<li>
These details are typical performance monitor counters + diagnostic information. We
can use Azure Admin tools to import these regularly and import them into our typical
tools.
<li>
System Center does exactly this – so our ‘dashboard’ of machines will list our local
machines as well as our cloud machines. Your IT guys have visibility into what’s going
on.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
We’ve been using Singapore DCs or West Coast US with pretty good performance times
across the infrastructure.&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
<strong>What does having a local Windows Azure Data Center mean to me:</strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>Medical Industry</strong> – we have several medical clients allowing us to
innovate around Cloud technologies using HL7 transports. Faster time to market and
higher degrees of re-use.
<li>
<strong>Cloud Lab Manager – </strong><a href="http://www.cloudlabmanager.com">www.cloudlabmanager.com</a> can
run locally for all training providers. Breeze has created an award winning cloud
based application that will certainly benefit from this piece of great news.
<li>
<strong>Creating a cloud based application is now feasible</strong> (this particular
one was due to the sensitive nature of information it carried)
<li>
<strong>And lastly I can house my MineCraft server – </strong>well it’s my 10 yr old
sons and half the school I reckon.</li>
</ul>
<p>
<strong></strong>&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
<strong>So for you…</strong>
</p>
<p>
Ask yourself the question – are you getting all these features from where you currently
host/run your hardware?
</p>
<p>
Lack of infrastructure and provisioning challenges shouldn’t be holding back new ideas
&amp; business movement. iPads, smartphones, anywhere, any time access should be the
norm, not like we’re putting another person on the moon.
</p>
<p>
<strong>It’s all about using the right tool for the job</strong>
</p>
<p>
Enjoy folks as it’s certainly exciting times for us Aussies ahead!!
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ausblog/archive/2013/05/16/windows-azure-expands-downunder.aspx" target="_blank">Microsoft’s
Announcement</a>
</p>
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*** THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY GOING ON WORLD WIDE even as we speak! ***

The wrap up of the day:

Saturday morning was nothing short of sensational in Sydney today, early morning sun,
bright blue skies, smell of coffee and a city that felt like it was snoozing and waking
for some playtime.

I walked into a room of curious minds, eager eyes and folks that were thinking of
possibilities in technology. This technology was Windows Azure.

We were above capacity & for the first time I would be relieved if there were
a few ‘no-shows’…but none happened. Even at 5pm we nearly had a full house.

Firstly I’ve got to thank – you the students for a great day, fantastic questions
and giving your precious weekend time.

Secondly the expert speakers that have huge experience in the field.

Mark O’Shea – Paradyne

Olaf Loogman – author of a popular Win8 app CyclingTracker – Breeze

Don Jayasinghe – Breeze

Mick Badran (yours truly) – Breeze

and finally all the sponsors & people that helped enable us to
bring this to you:

- a student drove 3.5hrs one way to be here with us during the day, then back to Canberra
again after class. Massive commitment.

- we all came with Azure Subscriptions ready to go.

- a student created a WebSite, Database + Worker role working in a solution together
during the day.

- Olaf has his Mobile Services demo fail (even though it worked at 10pm last night)
due to the recent Azure Portal update at 2am this morning. He did have a PlanB, the
autogenerated code from the Portal during the Mobile Services Application creation,
generates un-compilable code for now. Well done Olaf, some nice tap dancing.

(Olaf working his magic)

(looking out to the North Wing)

Thanks to Magnus a fellow Azure MVP - for setting all this up world wide and good
luck to all the other countries.

If you blog about it – then be sure to use the hashtag #globalwindowsazure.

Recently Microsoft added Backup Services (Preview) in which you can invoke the cloud
as part of your backup strategy, whether it be offsite secondaries etc.

You may have heard of Microsoft’s StorSimple which involved dropping a 2RU or 4RU
Hardware device into a customer’s rack in a Datacenter somewhere which is no easy
feat.

The reason why I’m liking the Azure Backup Services approach is that it’s a software
based solution.

Storage costs for Backups are cheaper and this is a feasible approach for backups.

The other cool thing is that – if I need fast access to my backups in the cloud, then
I can spin up a ‘configured’ VM in Azure (access to the same Backup Vault) and access
the backups. No need to copy them down on premise first.

2. On Premise (or anywhere else for that matter) Server with the Backup Services
Agent installed (currently Win2012, Win2008R2 are targeted platforms for
the Agent).
(Currently the BackupServices APIs are only planned to be used from these Agents and
not our own code….yet!)

3. A management certificate:

1. X509, Pub/Private keys installed in the local machine certificate store in the
OnPrem Server.

2. Public Key (*.CER file) uploaded to Azure Backup Services (this is different to
the Subscription Certificates you may already have up in Azure)

The certificate can be self signed and must have: 2048 (or greater) key length,
expire within 3 years.
(if your cert fails these requirements it will either fail to upload, or fail to be
recognised – we’re dealing with Preview here folks)

1. Creating the Vault

Login to the Azure Portal (activate the Backup Services Preview feature if you haven’t
done so already) and select Recovery Services

- Add a new Backup Vault with your details. It’s point a click stuff
here, no thinking yet.

2. Create the Management Certificate for Backup Services

There’s a few different ways to do this, makecert.exe is
the easiest way I find as follows:

You should be able to see your certificate details in the Backup Services – click
on your newly created empty BackupVault.

Now we’re ready to get onto the Server Side

3. Configuring and Registering the OnPremise Server to the Backup Vault.

3.1 Download the Agent from Backup Services

Click on the Download Agent Link from within Backup Services and
choose your selection:

Here I selected the first option – “Agent for Windows Server 2012 and System
Center 2012 SP1..”

Download the Agent (approx 17MB) and install.

This should go smoothly.

3.2 Registering the Server

Launch the Agent (if havent done so already) after the above installation completes.

(mine is empty)

3.2.2 Click on Register Server

(Configure a Proxy if you need to, this is for HTTP/HTTPs traffic)

Your certificate should come up in the list that you created earlier – if it doesnt
ensure that both the Private + Public keys are installed AND the Cert is in the Local
Machine Store. Then rerun this step.

Select the Vault details as follows in the Agent

(I’ve hidden my subscription ID here)

You’re 2 worlds are almost connected now, we have the Vault + the Server just about
done.

Click Next to move onto the Encryption Settings

Select a Passphrase and bear in mind that each new Server you add
which wants to restore/read the backup information from another server, will need
the same Passphrase.

Click the magic button REGISTER

This is also reflected on the Backup Services Portal under Servers as follows:

4. Configuring Backing – using the Windows Azure Backup & Throttling

(this is very simple and similar to Windows Backup)

What files are we backing up – click on Schedule Backup

I’ve selected a small folder on the System for the purpose of the demo

Select a Time – Currently limited to a max of 3 times a day per Server.

The COOOOOL THING is click on Change Properties – and here we can
configure Throttling.

- complete the Wizard to create your first backup schedule – well done!

You’ll now notice the Windows Azure Backup shell has a Backup
Now option on the right hand side.

I selected this and ran the Backup Now ‘wizard’ in which I could also specify Throttling
for this backup.

At this stage you can also go back to the Backup Services Portal and see an entry
in the Protected Items there as well.

5. Powershell Commands – it goes without saying that there’s a ton of powershell
commands to script alot of what we did above.

Digging into PowerShell we find that the commands fall under ‘OnlineBackup’ as follows
– notice MSOnlineBackup

If I simply run a Get-OBJob command we get back some reasonable info
around data transferred etc.

FYI – my kit I’ve added to over time and I’ve also got a Raspberry PI that
I play with (good NFC reader).

My FEZ KIT on the left, with the PI on the right in my beautiful Lego box

Now the best thing is that the FEZ Hydra kit (above) will
be available to you (as a prize and the like) on the BOOTCAMPS as part of the 6 weeks
of Azure.

Let me know how you get on and if you’ve got any questions about these guys – they’re
great and good for developers.

--- from the official blurb ----6 Weeks of Azure

Need in-person Azure Training? DevCamps are for you

Register for a DevCamp in Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane to
learn how to use the new Windows Azure features and services including Windows Azure
Virtual Machines, Web Sites, and Visual Studio 2012 to build and move a variety of
apps to the cloud. You will see how to build web sites, mobile
applications, and enterprise-class applications.

Need help with your app? Register for a Boot Camp

Register for a Boot Camp near you: Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane. Our
Industry and Microsoft experts will be available to help complete your
Windows Azure app as part of the 6 Weeks of Windows Azure course.
There will be a FEZ Hydra
Kit or two to win… not to mention some t-shirts and mice to
giveaway.

Azure: 6 weeks of Azure (6WOA) just got even more exciting–FEZ Kitshttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,f08e17c4-f887-4938-b52e-23e708cd962e.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2013/03/07/Azure6WeeksOfAzure6WOAJustGotEvenMoreExcitingFEZKits.aspx
Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:06:00 GMT<p>
Folks – we’re into week 2 of the 6 weeks of Azure program and as I was planning these
sessions out with Christian last year, I thought <strong>I’d like to bring some fun
into the mix</strong>.
</p>
<p>
There’s many possibilities that you can do in Azure, but none other than building
a bit of h/w, programming it &amp; having it talk to Azure! Monitored, controlled
– how good is that.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Enter the FEZ Kits</strong> – <a href="http://www.ghielectronics.com">www.ghielectronics.com</a>
</p>
<p>
(There’s also the Raspberry PI’s that run a flavour of Linux with a deployment of
Mono – that let’s you run C# code straight onto a $35 computer! – I’ll save that for
another post)
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-6-weeks-of-Azure-6WOA-just-got-eve_971A/image_2.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-6-weeks-of-Azure-6WOA-just-got-eve_971A/image_thumb.png" width="859" height="252"></a>
</p>
<p>
<strong>FEZ Kits</strong>
</p>
<p>
These are the ‘mans lego’ kit as I like to think of them as.
</p>
<p>
<strong>What makes these kits cool:</strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
they run a flavour of .NET – .NET Microframework. So yes you can write C# etc that
runs on the device.</li>
<li>
you can get many many additional <a href="http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/category/275" target="_blank">modules</a> for
these to plug into your masterpiece – things like temperature sensors, light sensors,
colour sensors etc.</li>
<li>
they run off USB power, even a set of 4 AAA batteries would do it.</li>
<li>
you program them via USB cable from Visual Studio.</li>
<li>
*rich* community and developer support - <a title="http://www.ghielectronics.com/support/.net-micro-framework" href="http://www.ghielectronics.com/support/.net-micro-framework">http://www.ghielectronics.com/support/.net-micro-framework</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<strong>FYI – my kit I’ve added to over time and I’ve also got a Raspberry PI that
I play with</strong> (good NFC reader).
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-6-weeks-of-Azure-6WOA-just-got-eve_971A/image_4.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-6-weeks-of-Azure-6WOA-just-got-eve_971A/image_thumb_1.png" width="598" height="338"></a>
</p>
<p>
My FEZ KIT on the left, with the PI on the right in my beautiful Lego box <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Smile" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-6-weeks-of-Azure-6WOA-just-got-eve_971A/wlEmoticon-smile_2.png">
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
Now the <font size="5">best thing</font> is that the <strong>FEZ Hydra kit </strong>(above)<strong> will
be available to you (as a prize and the like) on the BOOTCAMPS as part of the 6 weeks
of Azure.</strong>
</p>
<p>
Let me know how you get on and if you’ve got any questions about these guys – they’re
great and good for developers.
</p>
<p>
--- from the official blurb ----<br>
<strong>6 Weeks of Azure</strong>
</p>
<p>
<b>Need in-person Azure Training? DevCamps are for you</b>
<p>
Register for a DevCamp in <a href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032547185&amp;Culture=en-AU&amp;community=0">Melbourne</a> | <a href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032547186&amp;Culture=en-AU&amp;community=0">Sydney</a> | <a href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032547187&amp;Culture=en-AU&amp;community=1">Brisbane</a> to
learn how to use the new Windows Azure features and services including Windows Azure
Virtual Machines, Web Sites, and Visual Studio 2012 to build and move a variety of
apps to the cloud.&nbsp; You will see how to build web sites, mobile
<br>
applications, and enterprise-class applications.&nbsp;
<p>
<b>Need help with your app? Register for a Boot Camp</b>
<p>
Register for a Boot Camp near you: Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane. Our
<br>
Industry and Microsoft experts will be available to help complete your
<br>
Windows Azure app as part of the 6 Weeks of Windows Azure course.
<br>
There will be a <a href="http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/332">FEZ Hydra
Kit</a> or two to win… not to mention some t-shirts and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/arc-touch-mouse/RVF-00052">mice</a> to
giveaway.
<p>
<a href="http://aka.ms/6weeksForum">6 Weeks
<br>
Forum</a><img width="0" height="0" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/aggbug.ashx?id=f08e17c4-f887-4938-b52e-23e708cd962e" />http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/CommentView,guid,f08e17c4-f887-4938-b52e-23e708cd962e.aspxAzureAzure/6WOAAzure/IntegrationAzure/ServiceBushttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/Trackback.aspx?guid=20b3253e-bb58-42a0-ac34-6e2a7780b0d3http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/pingback.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,20b3253e-bb58-42a0-ac34-6e2a7780b0d3.aspxMick Badranhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/CommentView,guid,20b3253e-bb58-42a0-ac34-6e2a7780b0d3.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/SyndicationService.asmx/GetEntryCommentsRss?guid=20b3253e-bb58-42a0-ac34-6e2a7780b0d3

Scott’s team of teams have been busy and have come out with a few changes:

Rocky & Christian at Microsoft are busy combining a great community effort with
help from myself & Mahesh, Bill Chesnut and others to bring together a great 6
week program about a Journey through Azure (above and beyond technical aspects, but
they are also included).

Things like:

- taking an onpremise solution and converting to Azure.

- what your solution may look like in Azure.

- what considerations you’ll need to think about when working in Azure.

- Solution landscape

- Technical azure widgets and what each one does and how it can help you in your solution

- Time for you to go away, plan, contact an instructor, see a webcast and come back
to a Q&A session.

It’s got over 340 people registered on it so far and it’s never too late to jump on
board.

Azure: 6 weeks of Azure–let the games beginhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,65f08257-3693-4e99-9b88-5452c630b13a.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2013/02/18/Azure6WeeksOfAzureletTheGamesBegin.aspx
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:43:47 GMT<p>
Day #1 has been officially launched for the 6 weeks of Azure Program.
</p>
<p>
Rocky &amp; Christian at Microsoft are busy combining a great community effort with
help from myself &amp; Mahesh, Bill Chesnut and others to bring together a great 6
week program about a Journey through Azure (above and beyond technical aspects, but
they are also included).
</p>
<p>
Things like:
</p>
<p>
- taking an onpremise solution and converting to Azure.
</p>
<p>
- what your solution may look like in Azure.
</p>
<p>
- what considerations you’ll need to think about when working in Azure.
</p>
<p>
- Solution landscape
</p>
<p>
- Technical azure widgets and what each one does and how it can help you in your solution
</p>
<p>
- Time for you to go away, plan, contact an instructor, see a webcast and come back
to a Q&amp;A session.<br>
</p>
<p>
It’s got over 340 people registered on it so far and it’s never too late to jump on
board.
</p>
<p>
Read the full story here - <a title="http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/let-the-6-week-challenge-begin!.aspx" href="http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/let-the-6-week-challenge-begin!.aspx">http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/let-the-6-week-challenge-begin!.aspx</a>
</p>
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hi folks, while at the BizTalk 2012 Summit enjoying the great hospitality, we have
been hard at work forming an alliance with other brilliant integrators.

What it means for you is better service and support from us and our alliance partners.

Cheers,

Mick.

Here's the official blurb....

----

Breeze is proud to announce a brand new alliance with two integration partners, offering
you a global team of over 100 passionate integration experts at your fingertips. "Impack"
is the combination of three award winning, Microsoft certified integration partners.
It is the collaboration between Breeze (Australia), Codit (Europe)
and Matricis (North America)
enabling an elite group of Microsoft qualified Integration specialists to share knowledge,
innovation and provide exceptional service for our customers.

Together with the help of Microsoft Redmond BizTalk & Azure teams, the Integration
Alliance was launched at the BizTalk Summit, December 10th 2012.

What Impack Alliance offers:-

You work with the pro's - when it comes to integration: with a team over 100 passionate
BizTalk and Azure specialists and their accumulated experience in the Microsoft business,
you can be confident you rely on the best integration professionals on the planet.

You have worldwide expertise - at your fingertips: the alliance delivers you local
talent and global reach

We are always there - with expert 24/7 support: we support your business 24/7 with
a guarantee of highly qualified BizTalk and Azure experts

You can even get integration out of your mind - with innovative Integration as a Service:
we can take full ownership of integration in your company and let you focus on your
core business.

What is the main objective of this alliance?

Impack aims to deliver worldwide, high quality and cost effective integration solutions
based on best practices through the use of Microsoft technologies, enabling customers
to increase their efficiency and be ready anytime to enter into new competitive opportunities.

It is our endeavor to be thenumber one 'go to' partner for integration, worldwide.
For customers, and as a preferred partner to Microsoft.

Breeze: IMPACK - worldwide integration alliance announcedhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,c44854fc-7784-4491-a1c5-4946b8fc999f.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/12/11/BreezeIMPACKWorldwideIntegrationAllianceAnnounced.aspx
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:52:15 GMT<p>
hi folks, while at the BizTalk 2012 Summit enjoying the great hospitality, we have
been hard at work forming an alliance with other brilliant integrators.
</p>
<p>
What it means for you is better service and support from us and our alliance partners.
</p>
<p>
Cheers,
</p>
<p>
Mick.
</p>
<p>
Here's the official blurb....
</p>
<p>
----
</p>
<p>
Breeze is proud to announce a brand new alliance with two integration partners, offering
you a global team of over 100 passionate integration experts at your fingertips. "Impack"
is the combination of three award winning, Microsoft certified integration partners.
It is the collaboration between Breeze (Australia), <a href="http://www.codit.eu/" target=_blank>Codit</a> (Europe)
and <a href="http://matricis.com/" target=_blank>Matricis</a>&nbsp;(North America)
enabling an elite group of Microsoft qualified Integration specialists to share knowledge,
innovation and&nbsp;provide exceptional service for our customers.
</p>
<p>
Together with the help of Microsoft Redmond BizTalk &amp; Azure teams, the Integration
Alliance was&nbsp;launched at the BizTalk Summit, December 10th&nbsp;2012.
</p>
<p>
What&nbsp;Impack Alliance offers:-
</p>
<ul>
<li>
You work with the pro's - when it comes to integration: with a team over 100 passionate
BizTalk and Azure specialists and their accumulated experience in the Microsoft business,
you can be confident you rely on the best integration professionals on the planet.
<li>
You have worldwide expertise - at your fingertips: the alliance delivers you local
talent and global reach
<li>
We are always there - with expert 24/7 support: we support your business 24/7 with
a guarantee of highly qualified BizTalk and Azure experts
<li>
You can even get integration out of your mind - with innovative Integration as a Service:
we can take full ownership of integration in your company and let you focus on your
core business.</li>
</ul>
<p>
What is the main objective of this alliance?
</p>
<p>
Impack aims to deliver worldwide, high quality and cost effective integration solutions
based on best practices through the use of Microsoft technologies, enabling customers
to increase their efficiency and be ready anytime to enter into new competitive opportunities.
</p>
<p>
It is our endeavor to be thenumber one 'go to' partner for integration, worldwide.
For customers, and as a preferred partner to Microsoft.
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;<img alt=ImpackAlliance src="http://breeze.net/media/49432/impact_alliance_logo_print.jpeg" width=355 height=120>
</p>
<p>
Please visit the Impack Alliance website for more information:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.impackalliance.com/">http://www.impackalliance.com/</a>
</p>
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Hi guys, while planning for an Azure Based Event (ABE) coming soooon….or
at least after Santa has come and gone & given me a birthday pressie, I was directed
to a new site in the wings.

Coatsy and his DPE crew have been busy creating a site just for us.

One that accepts our slang and other Aussie quotes.

Register and it will notify you of all the events and other up and coming tidbits.

Azure: Australian Developers Sitehttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,c722e5b5-e81a-4eb5-ad84-182059015c4d.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/12/04/AzureAustralianDevelopersSite.aspx
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:20:03 GMT<p>
Hi guys, while planning for an <strong>Azure Based Event </strong>(ABE) coming soooon….or
at least after Santa has come and gone &amp; given me a birthday pressie, I was directed
to a new site in the wings.
</p>
<p>
Coatsy and his DPE crew have been busy creating a site just for us.
</p>
<p>
One that accepts our slang and other Aussie quotes.
</p>
<p>
Register and it will notify you of all the events and other up and coming tidbits.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://azure.msdeveloper.com.au/Default.aspx?at=blogs" target="_blank">http://azure.msdeveloper.com.au/Default.aspx?at=blogs</a>
</p>
<p>
+1 for the Aussie know how (Even if we speak US (English) :))
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
Stay tuned…and keep this on the bat-utility belt. “Holy Azure Batman….”
</p>
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You may have heard about ClickFrenzy where last night they launched a site with bargains
for a few hours.

Unfortunately there were far too many Error 500 – Server Too Busy errors
and hence the site lost many many potential customers.

Azure: Sale that stopped the nation…for the wrong reasonhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,9378c0a3-9313-45a1-b071-147e1da125bc.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/11/21/AzureSaleThatStoppedTheNationforTheWrongReason.aspx
Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:48:49 GMT<p>
You may have heard about ClickFrenzy where last night they launched a site with bargains
for a few hours.
</p>
<p>
Unfortunately there were far too many <strong>Error 500 – Server Too Busy </strong>errors
and hence the site lost many many potential customers.
</p>
<p>
Breeze has a great article on it - <a title="http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/the-sale-that-stopped-the-nation,-enter-windows-azure.aspx" href="http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/the-sale-that-stopped-the-nation,-enter-windows-azure.aspx">http://www.breeze.net/news/breezetalk/the-sale-that-stopped-the-nation,-enter-windows-azure.aspx</a>
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
Who’d have thought….
</p>
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Folks with the unforeseen skill from Christian
Longstaff, we could be unveiling something great….. kicking around a few
ideas and Christian’s talent for such things shone.

As with all amazing shiny new things it needed a place in the blog-sphere…

Azure: Windows Azure Community Conference–Chit Chat.http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,11c993ef-3758-41b9-9cf1-268b1d90d99f.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/11/01/AzureWindowsAzureCommunityConferenceChitChat.aspx
Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:55:16 GMT<p>
Halloween’s just over and my place was overrun with Kids of all sizes seeking high-fructose
corn syrup hits…to keep them going till the next house.
</p>
<p>
It seems Scott Gutherie has all sorts of pieces he wants to chat about on this next <strong>free
conference.</strong>
</p>
<p>
The world of the Cloud moves just so quickly that these sorts of events are essential
to get you up to date in your thinking.
</p>
<p>
Remember what the cloud story was 12 months ago &amp; how many new features/capabilities
have been added since.
</p>
<p>
Check out the blurb and register….
</p>
<p>
<a title="http://www.windowsazureconf.net/" href="http://www.windowsazureconf.net/">http://www.windowsazureconf.net/</a>
</p>
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It runs both as part of Windows Server and within Azure VMs also. It also is
used by the SharePoint team in 2013, so learn it once and you’ll get great mileage
out of it.
(I’m yet to put it through serious paces)

So all in all a major improvement and we’ve now got somewhere serious to host our
WF Services. If you’ve ever gone through the process of creating your own WF host,
you’ll appreciate it’s not a trivial task especially if you want some deeper functionality
such as restartability and fault tolerance.

but…. if you want to kick off a quick WF to be part of an install script, evaluate
an Excel spreadsheet and set results, then hosting within the app, spreadsheet is
fine.

The Workflow Client should install fine on it’s own (mine didn’t
as I had to remove some of the beta bits that were previously installed).

Installing the Workflow Manager – create a farm, I went for a Custom
Setting install below, just to show you the options.

As you scroll down on this page, you’ll notice a HTTP Port – check
the check box to enable HTTP communications to the Workflow Manager.This just makes it easier if we need to debug anything across the wire.

Select NEXT or the cool little Arrow->

On Prem Service Bus is rolled into this install now – accepting defaults.

Plugin your Service Accounts and passphrase (for Farm membership and an encryption
seed).

Click Next –> to reveal….

As with the latest set of MS Products a cool cool feature is the ‘Get PowerShell
Commands’ so you can see the script behind your UI choices (VMM manager,
SCCM 2012 has all this right through). BTW – passwords don’t get exported in the script,
you’ll need to add.

Script Sample:

# To be run in Workflow Manager PowerShell
console that has both Workflow Manager and Service Bus installed.

For
your business, BizTalk provides the "glue" to giving you a very
good integration foundation for both internal applications as well as the outside
world and giving you consistency across those interfaces as well.

BizTalk
is a platform that is durable, reliable and fault tolerant right across your services,
from email, FTP services, web services, database calls and much more, you will have
something that retries all of those for you.

Why
BizTalk?

BizTalk
provides a level of maturity to customer operations as well as consistency. It is
harder for customers to build themselves, the capabilities that BizTalk can offer
out of the box. Our experience is that customers often start out building smaller
applications here and there with eventually having over 100 applications talking to
each other in a very specific way, all in a very ad-hoc approach and all very speciailised.
Over time to maintain those systems becomes a big challenge for the client with increased
complexity along the way.

Whereas
by introducing a uniform, a best practice way of doing something, "business rules"
such as within BizTalk, it eases that integration with the company to make it a lot
simpler and easier to manage and everyone gets visibility in to the activity of those
calls within the applications.

What
our customers are doing with BizTalk today

BizTalk
being a middleware product is being used in many different scenarios, from simple
file transfers right across to complex business process automation.

Customers
in one instance are getting real time notifications around FTP, where certain files
appear, then systems have to react or respond immediately instead of within a polling
interval that may occur at any time during the day. So being able to build out that
infrastructure and apply or update databases, all of that happens right across the
BizTalk layer, then exposed out via web services.

In-short
BizTalk forms another tool in the client toolkit, using the MS integration stack,
so on top of not only BizTalk and all of its' capabilities and adapters, we have WCF
(Windows Communication Foundation), messaging, MSMQ and many others in the integration
stack, not to mention Azure and cloud hybrid solutions we can deploy and employ today.
So with clients it's not just about providing BizTalk to solve a problem, it's about
using the tools in the toolkit to meet their requirements, whatever the tools may
be, to solve their immediate challenge.

BizTalk 2010: Bootcamp - Sydney - Coming up.http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,cdbd8350-cc2f-4630-8e71-62e536fa6208.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/10/11/BizTalk2010BootcampSydneyComingUp.aspx
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Hi folks,
</p>
<p>
What a great time we're in at the moment. Cloud(s) are knocking a the door, local
devices, windows 8 etc.
</p>
<p>
No complaints from me that this world is getting more and more connected.
</p>
<p>
To maintain those connections and handle new ones - Microsoft BizTalk Server serves
as your on-premise middleware platform.
</p>
<p>
We're running a course shortly on Design, Build and Manage your solutions within BizTalk
Server.
</p>
<p>
We have a wealth of knowledge around Integration and Cloud technologies. As you and
I know, integration is all about the systems you're integrating with.
</p>
<p>
Here's the details - and hope to see you there. Mick (you're new Azure Integration
MVP)
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Serif','Arial'; COLOR: #003e7e">Come
along to our office for a week of BizTalk 2010&nbsp;Bootcamp Training!</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #5f5f5f"><a href="http://breeze.net/media/20652/BizTalk%20Bootcamp%20V2.pdf">Agenda</a></span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #5f5f5f">We
will take care of you with delicious catering, friendly staff and provide our state
of the art BizTalk trainer. There are a limited amount of seats, so book now! </span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
<a href="https://bmail.breeze.net/OWA/redir.aspx?C=9Xw-S9JgyUaTQD2MBU-46pZDvInTes8IFc1bijHup_b3Mz8dDNrhMSUyx0fjjEnncTUeMOEpZwA.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.breeze.net%2fwhat-we-do%2ftraining%2fcourse-calendar%2fbiztalk-2010-developer-bootcamp-october-2012.aspx" target=_blank><span class=Hyperlink__Char><span class=Hyperlink__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #1f497d; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Click
here to register</span></span></a><span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #1f497d"> </span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #5f5f5f">Start:
Monday, November 12, 2012</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #5f5f5f">End:
Friday, November 16 2012 </span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Serif','Arial'; COLOR: #003e7e">What
is BizTalk?</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #555555">For
your business, BizTalk provides the "glue" to giving yo<a name=_GoBack></a>u a very
good integration foundation for both internal applications as well as the outside
world and giving you consistency across those interfaces as well.</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #555555">BizTalk
is a platform that is durable, reliable and fault tolerant right across your services,
from email, FTP services, web services, database calls and much more, you will have
something that retries all of those for you.</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Serif','Arial'; COLOR: #003e7e">Why
BizTalk?</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #555555">BizTalk
provides a level of maturity to customer operations as well as consistency. It is
harder for customers to build themselves, the capabilities that BizTalk can offer
out of the box. Our experience is that customers often start out building smaller
applications here and there with eventually having over 100 applications talking to
each other in a very specific way, all in a very ad-hoc approach and all very speciailised.
Over time to maintain those systems becomes a big challenge for the client with increased
complexity along the way.</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #555555">Whereas
by introducing a uniform, a best practice way of doing something, "business rules"
such as within BizTalk, it eases that integration with the company to make it a lot
simpler and easier to manage and everyone gets visibility in to the activity of those
calls within the applications.</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Serif','Arial'; COLOR: #003e7e">What
our customers are doing with BizTalk today</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #555555">BizTalk
being a middleware product is being used in many different scenarios, from simple
file transfers right across to complex business process automation.</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #555555">Customers
in one instance are getting real time notifications around FTP, where certain files
appear, then systems have to react or respond immediately instead of within a polling
interval that may occur at any time during the day. So being able to build out that
infrastructure and apply or update databases, all of that happens right across the
BizTalk layer, then exposed out via web services.</span>
</p>
<p class=Normal style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt">
<span class=Normal__Char style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Droid Sans','Arial'; COLOR: #555555">In-short
BizTalk forms another tool in the client toolkit, using the MS integration stack,
so on top of not only BizTalk and all of its' capabilities and adapters, we have WCF
(Windows Communication Foundation), messaging, MSMQ and many others in the integration
stack, not to mention Azure and cloud hybrid solutions we can deploy and employ today.
So with clients it's not just about providing BizTalk to solve a problem, it's about
using the tools in the toolkit to meet their requirements, whatever the tools may
be, to solve their immediate challenge.</span>
</p>
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In the wee early hours of the morning I recently got an email saying I had been awarded
a MVP for another year.

This time I got awarded as an Azure MVP coming from BizTalk
MVP. My love has been BizTalk for the last 12 years (and even Site Server
before that for those that remember back that far…no they didn’t have punch cards ).

As always I don’t feel this is personally my award, but more of an award to you, the
community with your hunger and thirst for knowledge to make a difference in your day
to day.

And of course thank you to Microsoft for your belief in the MVP program and individuals
such as myself.

……

The formal bits out of the way….I’m back for 2012/13!!! Should be a great year…great
tour…and huge developments. Stay tuned.

My focus will be How to Integration and how-to integrate to/from Windows Azure.

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Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:49:47 GMT<p>
In the wee early hours of the morning I recently got an email saying I had been awarded
a MVP for another year.
</p>
<p>
This time I got awarded as an <strong>Azure MVP</strong> coming from <strong>BizTalk
MVP</strong>. My love has been BizTalk for the last 12 years (and even Site Server
before that for those that remember back that far…no they didn’t have punch cards <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Smile" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/MVP-Ive-been-re-awarded-with-a-twist_8561/wlEmoticon-smile_2.png">).
</p>
<p>
As always I don’t feel this is personally my award, but more of an award to you, the
community with your hunger and thirst for knowledge to make a difference in your day
to day.
</p>
<p>
And of course thank you to Microsoft for your belief in the MVP program and individuals
such as myself.
</p>
<p>
……
</p>
<p>
The formal bits out of the way….I’m back for 2012/13!!! Should be a great year…great
tour…and huge developments. Stay tuned.
</p>
<p>
<strong>My focus will be How to Integration and how-to integrate to/from Windows Azure.</strong>
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://davidburela.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/mvp.png"><img title="mvp" style="float: left; display: inline" border="0" alt="mvp" align="left" src="http://davidburela.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/mvp_thumb.png?w=157&amp;h=244" width="157" height="244"></a>
<p>
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</p>
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Hi folks, BizTalk has some great new features on the horizon and this CTP is jam packed
of new and improved features. I believe the CTP is non-public atm, with MVPs etc.
able to get access (or if you’re on the TAP program)

I’ve got a VM up and running with the setup and config working a treat – I’m not sure
how much I can say, but I’d like to say I’m very pleased with what I’m seeing!

The official feature set blurb goes something like this…

Enjoy.

Details…

Improved
productivity with new Microsoft Platform support

Customers
can now leverage the latest and greatest platforms, such as Windows Server 2012 RC,
SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio 2012 RC. All new BizTalk projects will target .Net
Framework 4.5 RC by default. The CTP also provides support for latest LOB versions
enabling customers to use BizTalk for integrating their applications with the latest
versions of SAP, Oracle and SQL Server. The new adapters provide a seamless experience
to enable hybrid connectivity, all done via configuration. The CTP provides native
support for ACS authentication and is extensible for other authentication mechanisms.

·Platform
support

oWindows
Server 2012 RC, Windows Server 2008 R2

oSQL
Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2

oVisual
Studio 2012 RC

oOffice
2010

oSupport
for latest LOB versions

§Support
for SQL Server 2012

§Support
for SAP 7.2

§Support
for Oracle DB 11.2

§Support
for Oracle EBS 12.1 …

·Adapters

oWCF-WebHttp
adapter, to consume REST service or expose REST service

oSB-Messaging,
for sending/pulling data from Service Bus Queues/Topics

oWCF-NetTCPRelay,
for hosting relays or sending data to NetTCPRelay end points

oWCF-BasicHttpRelay,
for hosting relays or sending data to BasicHttpRelay end points

Better
B2B with schema updates

EDI
standards evolve and one of the key investments made in this new BizTalk CTP is to
ensure that we support the latest B2B standards natively. This enables you to transact
messages based on the latest versions of EDI protocol.

We
are working on further schema updates such as HL7 2.6, these will be enabled in the
BizTalk 2010 R2 Beta.

Improved
Performance

The
CTP provides performance improvement for certain key scenarios. In case of two way
MLLP adapter scenarios where ordered delivery is set, the tests have revealed up-to
5X performance improvement so far in our environments. We have also made enhancements
in our engine to improve the performance in ordered send port scenarios.

Building
hybrid applications

Today,
there is an increase in the adoption of hybrid application scenarios where some components
of an application run in the cloud and some other components/LOB applications remain
on-premise. It then becomes important to integrate between these components and leverage
the richness of both worlds. In this CTP release, we enable hybrid connectivity by
providing first class support for integrating with Azure Service Bus Queues/Topics/Relays.
We are introducing the following adapters

·SB-Messaging,
for sending/pulling data from Service Bus Queues/Topics

·WCF-NetTCPRelay,
for hosting relays or sending data to NetTCPRelay end points

·WCF-BasicHttpRelay,
for hosting relays or sending data to BasicHttpRelay end points

Integrating
with Azure Service Bus entities is now just a few configurations away!

Integration
with RESTful services

One
of the other prevalent trends in the market today is the proliferation of RESTful
services. Almost all new services, as well a lot of services created previously, have
a REST interface exposed. For example, all services in Windows Azure, data market
place, Salesforce, etc. have support for REST services. With this CTP release, we
are making it really easy for you to integrate RESTful services with BizTalk Server
using the new WCF-WebHttp adapter. All the REST operations like GET, PUT, POST and
DELETE are now supported natively. It gets better. We received community feedback
during and post TechEd conference that there should be a way to expose REST services
as well from BizTalk. We listened to your feedback. Along with consuming REST services
we are also really excited to announce that you now have an early preview to exposing
REST services from BizTalk Server as well in this CTP.

BizTalk
Server in Azure Virtual Machine role

All
the above enhancements are available right away for you to preview with BizTalk Server
in Azure Virtual Machine role. Setting up a new BizTalk Server environment usually
involves long lead time to procure hardware, get the dependencies in place, set up
the server, etc. This means long lead times before you can get started with your new
BizTalk Server environment. We are now leveraging the power of the cloud and the richness
of Windows Azure to provide an experience where you can get up and running with your
BizTalk Server environment in matter of minutes and move your existing applications
to the cloud without making any changes. Furthermore, the CTP provide improvements
to the BizTalk multi machine configuration and now you can do this using some basic
configuration settings with the click of a button in a single machine, without having
to go and configure BizTalk Server Group in each of the individual nodes.

I am still in shock over this award and are very humbled in receiving it – over 3500+
entries and our story won. Thank you Microsoft, thank you Breeze team and thank you
to our great customers in which all of this would not have been possible without you.

Application Integration

Cloud Partner

So today was the day at WPC2012 to
receive the award up on stage here in Toronto. Not nervous at all seeing
we had a 2hr rehearsal yesterday.

What a time has this been so far at my first WPC!!! Compared to ‘techie’ conferences
the dress standard is higher, different type of events and some great tech demos that
are mind blowing (there was one on the keynote today where a partner had developed
software around Kinect that created a 3d model of a person by moving the Kinect camera
around the person, their software stitched the images together to produce a 3d model.
Then the image/model was fed to a 3D printer and presto…out came the 3D person! Very
cool)

So after having a photo down under the stadium we were to come out of I was ready
to go….

Waiting in the tunnel:

My View from out in the middle:

Your view of the middle:

So all in all it’s been a great day, great time so far and well worth it. I was then
fortunate enough to be invited to a Azure Round table discussion with Satya
Nadella (President of Server and Tools) and what a lovely lovely lovely guy.
He’s very switched on and a refreshing experience was had with myself and 6 others
in the room.

He took away our Azure stories and feedback so let's wait and see what transpires
– very inspirational stuff! Thank you Satya.

And I think I the Northern Hemisphere could be affecting me slightly…

More filming tonight and then I can relax!!

WPC Day 2.

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Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:25:41 GMT<p>
I am still in shock over this award and are very humbled in receiving it – over 3500+
entries and our story won. Thank you Microsoft, thank you Breeze team and thank you
to our great customers in which all of this would not have been possible without you.<br>
</p>
<p>
<strong>Application Integration</strong>
<br>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WPC11_WebBnnr_Anim_Winner_2.gif"><img title="WPC11_WebBnnr_Anim_Winner" style="display: inline" alt="WPC11_WebBnnr_Anim_Winner" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WPC11_WebBnnr_Anim_Winner_thumb.gif" width="234" height="60"></a>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
<strong>Cloud Partner<br>
</strong> <a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WPC12_WebBnnr_Anim_Finalist_2.gif"><img title="WPC12_WebBnnr_Anim_Finalist" style="display: inline" alt="WPC12_WebBnnr_Anim_Finalist" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WPC12_WebBnnr_Anim_Finalist_thumb.gif" width="234" height="60"></a>
</p>
<p>
So <strong>today was the day at <a href="http://www.digitalwpc.com/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">WPC2012</a> to
receive the award </strong>up on stage here in Toronto. Not nervous at all <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Winking smile" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile_2.png"> seeing
we had a 2hr rehearsal yesterday.
</p>
<p>
What a time has this been so far at my first WPC!!! Compared to ‘techie’ conferences
the dress standard is higher, different type of events and some great tech demos that
are mind blowing (there was one on the keynote today where a partner had developed
software around Kinect that created a 3d model of a person by moving the Kinect camera
around the person, their software stitched the images together to produce a 3d model.
Then the image/model was fed to a 3D printer and presto…out came the 3D person! Very
cool)
</p>
<p>
So after having a photo down under the stadium we were to come out of I was ready
to go….<br>
</p>
<p>
Waiting in the tunnel:<br>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000094_2.jpg"><img title="WP_000094" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="WP_000094" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000094_thumb.jpg" width="644" height="484"></a>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
My View from out in the middle:<br>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000096_2.jpg"><img title="WP_000096" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="WP_000096" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000096_thumb.jpg" width="644" height="484"></a>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
Your view of the middle:
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000383_2.jpg"><img title="WP_000383" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="WP_000383" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000383_thumb.jpg" width="644" height="484"></a>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
So all in all it’s been a great day, great time so far and well worth it. I was then
fortunate enough to be invited to a Azure Round table discussion with <strong>Satya
Nadella </strong>(President of Server and Tools) and what a lovely lovely lovely guy.
He’s very switched on and a refreshing experience was had with myself and 6 others
in the room.
</p>
<p>
He took away our Azure stories and feedback so let's wait and see what transpires
– very inspirational stuff! Thank you Satya.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000100_2.jpg"><img title="WP_000100" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="WP_000100" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000100_thumb.jpg" width="644" height="484"></a>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
And I think I the Northern Hemisphere could be affecting me slightly…
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000099_2.jpg"><img title="WP_000099" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="WP_000099" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/WP_000099_thumb.jpg" width="644" height="484"></a>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
More filming tonight and then I can relax!! <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile" style="border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none" alt="Open-mouthed smile" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Breeze-Thank-youWPC-2012We-won-Applicati_FCE6/wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile_2.png">
</p>
<p>
WPC Day 2.
</p>
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Hi folks, you've probably heard a fair bit about the make over of Azure into 'Azure
2.0' (the SDK is still 1.7)

There's some great new tools within VS.NET to manage your environment better, even
a Service Bus 'explorer' which was much needed.

I've collected a few links to start with for you guys to read up on when you've got
a moment:

Azure:Windows Azure SDK for .NET - June 2012http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,3a5fb9e0-f5ec-4cf7-ba3e-96e7e3a361a6.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/06/07/AzureWindowsAzureSDKForNETJune2012.aspx
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:31:37 GMT<p>
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29988">Windows Azure
SDK for .NET - June 2012 available.</a>
</p>
<img width="0" height="0" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/aggbug.ashx?id=3a5fb9e0-f5ec-4cf7-ba3e-96e7e3a361a6" />http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/CommentView,guid,3a5fb9e0-f5ec-4cf7-ba3e-96e7e3a361a6.aspxAzureAzure/IntegrationAzure/ServiceBushttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/Trackback.aspx?guid=4a73e87e-c9e7-40a4-9061-4d1e547164c5http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/pingback.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,4a73e87e-c9e7-40a4-9061-4d1e547164c5.aspxMick Badran0 0http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/CommentView,guid,4a73e87e-c9e7-40a4-9061-4d1e547164c5.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/SyndicationService.asmx/GetEntryCommentsRss?guid=4a73e87e-c9e7-40a4-9061-4d1e547164c5
Finally we get some info on what IP ranges
are used for the Data Centers. Now when you have those conversations with the Network
security folks and when they ask "What IP addresses are you hitting?", when they want
to open up access for Azure Service Bus.

Here's the 'official' IP Ranges (you just hope it doesn't change on you...it works
for 3 days of the week, then the 4th it stops...that was an interesting one to solve)

Azure: Data Center IP Ranges Publishedhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,4a73e87e-c9e7-40a4-9061-4d1e547164c5.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/05/28/AzureDataCenterIPRangesPublished.aspx
Mon, 28 May 2012 22:25:50 GMTFinally we get some info on what IP ranges are used for the Data Centers. Now when you have those conversations with the Network security folks and when they ask "What IP addresses are you hitting?", when they want to open up access for Azure Service Bus.<br>
<br>
Here's the 'official' IP Ranges (you just hope it doesn't change on you...it works
for 3 days of the week, then the 4th it stops...that was an interesting one to solve)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29840">Windows Azure
DataCenter IP Ranges</a>
<br>
<br>
This appeases my grief in a <a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/02/02/AzureCurrentIPRangeOfDataCenters.aspx">previous
post</a>
<br>
<p>
</p>
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My experience has seen this will appeal to the non-MS types that see ‘Windows…’ as
something they don’t want to go near.
I personally think it’s a good move as sure it’s Windows but the Azure Platform offers
so much more…..

With the ever changing Azure space, chances are you’ve had services working a treat
and then one day just fail.

“Can’t connect…" etc.

This has happened to me twice this week – with over 14 IP Address ranges defined in
the client’s firewall rules.

It appears that my service bus services were spun up or assigned another IP outside
the ‘allowed range’.

It gets frustrating at times as generally the process goes as follows:

1) fill out a form to request firewall changes. Include as much detail as possible.

2) hand to the client and they delegate to their security/ops team to implement.

3) confirmation comes back.

4) start up ServiceBus service

5) could work?? may fail – due to *another* IP address allocated in Windows Azure
not on the ‘allowed list of ranges’.

6) fill out another form asking for another IP Address…
…
By the 3rd iteration of this process it all is beginning to look very unprofessional.
(in comparison, these guys are used to tasks such as ‘Access to SQL Server XXX – here’s
the ports, there’s the machine and done’. Azure on the other hand – ‘What IP Addresses
do you need? What ports?’… we need better information in this area)

Azure: Current IP Range of Data Centershttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,7d63e5d6-8f80-4ec4-98cc-af690ff77155.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/02/02/AzureCurrentIPRangeOfDataCenters.aspx
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:15:07 GMT<p>
With the ever changing Azure space, chances are you’ve had services working a treat
and then one day just fail.
</p>
<p>
“Can’t connect…" etc.
</p>
<p>
This has happened to me twice this week – with over 14 IP Address ranges defined in
the client’s firewall rules.
</p>
<p>
It appears that my service bus services were spun up or assigned another IP outside
the ‘allowed range’.
</p>
<p>
It gets frustrating at times as generally the process goes as follows:
</p>
<p>
1) fill out a form to request firewall changes. Include as much detail as possible.
</p>
<p>
2) hand to the client and they delegate to their security/ops team to implement.
</p>
<p>
3) confirmation comes back.
</p>
<p>
4) start up ServiceBus service
</p>
<p>
5) could work?? may fail – due to *another* IP address allocated in Windows Azure
not on the ‘allowed list of ranges’.
</p>
<p>
6) fill out another form asking for another IP Address…<br>
…<br>
By the 3rd iteration of this process it all is beginning to look very unprofessional.
(in comparison, these guys are used to tasks such as ‘Access to SQL Server XXX – here’s
the ports, there’s the machine and done’. Azure on the other hand – ‘What IP Addresses
do you need? What ports?’… we need better information in this area)
</p>
<p>
Anyway – here’s the most update to date list 10/02/2011.
</p>
<p>
<a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazureappfabricannounce/archive/2010/01/28/additional-data-centers-for-windows-azure-platform-appfabric.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazureappfabricannounce/archive/2010/01/28/additional-data-centers-for-windows-azure-platform-appfabric.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazureappfabricannounce/archive/2010/01/28/additional-data-centers-for-windows-azure-platform-appfabric.aspx</a>
</p>
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Scotty & myself have had this error going for over 2 weeks now, and have tried
many options, settings, registry keys, reboots and so on.
(we have had this on 2 boxes now, that are *not* directly connected to the internet.
They are locked down servers with only required services accessible through the firewall)

Generally you’ll encounter this error is you install Azure SDK v1.6 –
there has been people that have revert back to Azure v1.5 SDK when
this error has been encountered and this seems to fix most of their problems.

Here I’m using netTcpRelayBinding,BizTalk 2010 but
this could just have easily have been IIS or your own app.

Finding the outbound ports and Azure datacenter address space is always the challenge.
Ports 80,443,9351 and 9352 are the main ones with the remote addresses being the network
segments of your Azure Datacenter.

The problem: “Oh it’s a chain validation thing, I’ll just go and turn off
Certificate checking…” let me see the options.
(this is what we thought 2+ weeks ago)

Here I have a BizTalk shot of the transportClientEndpointBehaviour with Authentication
node set to NoCheck and None (you would set these from code
or a config file outside of biztalk)

We found that these currently have NO BEARING whatsoever…2 weeks
we’ll never get back.

Don’t be drawn into here, it’s a long windy path and you’ll most likely end up short.

I am currently waiting to hear back from the folks on the product team to
see what the answer is on this – BUT for now as a workaround we sat down with a network
sniffer to see the characteristics.

Work around:

1. Add some Host Entries

2. Create a dummy site so the checker is fooled into grabbing local CRLs.

Download and extract these directories to your DEFAULT WEB SITE (i.e.
the one that answers to http://127.0.0.1/…..)
This is usually under C:\inetpub\wwwroot (even if you have sharepoint
installed)

-------------------- The nasty error -------------------

The Messaging Engine failed to add a receive location "<receive location>" with
URL "sb://<rec url>" to the adapter "WCF-Custom". Reason: "System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityNegotiationException: The
X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed. The certificate
that was used has a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or
change the certificateValidationMode. The revocation function was unable to check
revocation because the revocation server was offline.
---> System.IdentityModel.Tokens.SecurityTokenValidationException: The X.509 certificate
CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed. The certificate that was used has
a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or change the certificateValidationMode. The
revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was
offline.

Azure ServiceBus: Fixing the dreaded ‘The X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed’ errorhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,6b6ec403-2e44-4bfa-9882-b9aef66a76d1.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/01/31/AzureServiceBusFixingTheDreadedTheX509CertificateCNservicebuswindowsnetChainBuildingFailedError.aspx
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:08:41 GMT<p>
Scotty &amp; myself have had this error going for over 2 weeks now, and have tried
many options, settings, registry keys, reboots and so on.<br>
(we have had this on 2 boxes now, that are *not* directly connected to the internet.
They are locked down servers with only required services accessible through the firewall)
</p>
<p>
Generally you’ll encounter this error is you install <strong>Azure SDK v1.6</strong> –
there has been people that have revert back to <strong>Azure v1.5 SDK</strong> when
this error has been encountered and this seems to fix most of their problems.
</p>
<p>
Here I’m using <strong>netTcpRelayBinding,</strong> <strong>BizTalk 2010</strong> but
this could just have easily have been IIS or your own app.
</p>
<p>
Finding the outbound ports and Azure datacenter address space is always the challenge.
Ports 80,443,9351 and 9352 are the main ones with the remote addresses being the network
segments of your Azure Datacenter.
</p>
<p>
<strong>The problem: “Oh it’s a chain validation thing, I’ll just go and turn off
Certificate checking…” </strong>let me see the options.<br>
(this is what we thought 2+ weeks ago)
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-ServiceBus_C204/image_4.png"><img title="image" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-ServiceBus_C204/image_thumb_1.png" width="553" height="584"></a>
</p>
<p>
Here I have a BizTalk shot of the <strong>transportClientEndpointBehaviour</strong> with <strong>Authentication
node </strong>set to <strong>NoCheck and None</strong> (you would set these from code
or a config file outside of biztalk)<br>
<br>
<strong>We found that these currently have NO BEARING whatsoever…</strong>2 weeks
we’ll never get back.<br>
<br>
Don’t be drawn into here, it’s a long windy path and you’ll most likely end up short.
</p>
<p>
<strong>I am currently waiting to hear back from the folks on the product team to
see what the answer is on this – BUT for now as a workaround we sat down with a network
sniffer to see the characteristics.</strong>
</p>
<p>
<strong>Work around:</strong>
</p>
<p>
1. Add some <strong>Host Entries</strong>
</p>
<p>
2. Create a dummy site so the checker is fooled into grabbing local CRLs.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Add these Entries to your HOSTs file</strong>.
</p>
<p>
127.0.0.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; www.public-trust.com<br>
127.0.0.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; mscrl.microsoft.com<br>
127.0.0.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; crl.microsoft.com<br>
127.0.0.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; corppki
</p>
<p>
<strong>Download and extract these directories to your DEFAULT WEB SITE</strong> (i.e.
the one that answers to <a href="http://127.0.0.1/">http://127.0.0.1/</a>…..)<br>
This is usually under <strong>C:\inetpub\wwwroot </strong>(even if you have sharepoint
installed)<br>
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</iframe>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>-------------------- The nasty error -------------------</strong>
</p>
<p>
The Messaging Engine failed to add a receive location "&lt;receive location&gt;" with
URL "sb://&lt;rec url&gt;" to the adapter "WCF-Custom". Reason: "System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityNegotiationException: <strong>The
X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed</strong>. The certificate
that was used has a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or
change the certificateValidationMode. The revocation function was unable to check
revocation because the revocation server was offline.<br>
---&gt; System.IdentityModel.Tokens.SecurityTokenValidationException: The X.509 certificate
CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed. The certificate that was used has
a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or change the certificateValidationMode. <strong>The
revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was
offline.</strong>
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.Security.RetriableCertificateValidator.Validate(X509Certificate2
certificate)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.IdentityModel.Selectors.X509SecurityTokenAuthenticator.ValidateTokenCore(SecurityToken
token)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.IdentityModel.Selectors.SecurityTokenAuthenticator.ValidateToken(SecurityToken
token)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SslStreamSecurityUpgradeInitiator.ValidateRemoteCertificate(Object
sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SecureChannel.VerifyRemoteCertificate(RemoteCertValidationCallback
remoteCertValidationCallback)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.CompleteHandshake()<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.CheckCompletionBeforeNextReceive(ProtocolToken
message, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32
count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessReceivedBlob(Byte[] buffer, Int32
count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReceiveBlob(Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest
asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32
count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessReceivedBlob(Byte[] buffer, Int32
count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReceiveBlob(Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest
asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32
count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessReceivedBlob(Byte[] buffer, Int32
count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReceiveBlob(Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest
asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartSendBlob(Byte[] incoming, Int32
count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.ForceAuthentication(Boolean receiveFirst,
Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessAuthentication(LazyAsyncResult
lazyResult)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SslStreamSecurityUpgradeInitiator.OnInitiateUpgrade(Stream
stream, SecurityMessageProperty&amp; remoteSecurity)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; --- End of inner exception stack trace ---<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SslStreamSecurityUpgradeInitiator.OnInitiateUpgrade(Stream
stream, SecurityMessageProperty&amp; remoteSecurity)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.StreamSecurityUpgradeInitiatorBase.InitiateUpgrade(Stream
stream)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionUpgradeHelper.InitiateUpgrade(StreamUpgradeInitiator
upgradeInitiator, IConnection&amp; connection, ClientFramingDecoder decoder, IDefaultCommunicationTimeouts
defaultTimeouts, TimeoutHelper&amp; timeoutHelper)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.SendPreamble(IConnection
connection, ArraySegment`1 preamble, TimeoutHelper&amp; timeoutHelper)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.DuplexConnectionPoolHelper.AcceptPooledConnection(IConnection
connection, TimeoutHelper&amp; timeoutHelper)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionPoolHelper.EstablishConnection(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.OnOpen(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.RelayedOnewayChannel.Open(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.GetChannel(Uri via, TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.ConnectRequestReplyContext.Send(Message
message, TimeSpan timeout, IDuplexChannel&amp; channel)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpListener.RelayedOnewayTcpListenerClient.Connect(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayTcpClient.EnsureConnected(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.RefcountedCommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.RelayedOnewayChannelListener.OnOpen(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ChannelDispatcher.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.SocketConnectionTransportManager.OnOpen(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.TransportManager.Open(TimeSpan timeout,
TransportChannelListener channelListener)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.TransportManagerContainer.Open(TimeSpan
timeout, SelectTransportManagersCallback selectTransportManagerCallback)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.SocketConnectionChannelListener`2.OnOpen(TimeSpan
timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.ServiceBus.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ChannelDispatcher.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Runtime.WcfReceiveEndpoint.Enable()<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Runtime.WcfReceiveEndpoint..ctor(BizTalkEndpointContext
endpointContext, IBTTransportProxy transportProxy, ControlledTermination control)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Runtime.WcfReceiver`2.AddReceiveEndpoint(String
url, IPropertyBag adapterConfig, IPropertyBag bizTalkConfig)".
</p>
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Windows Azure cannot perform a VIP swap between deployments
that have a different number of endpoints.

Which begs the question – what happens as part of an upgrade if you
add-endpoints???

So clearly the VIP Swap operation is not a simple process.

Now off to delete some production instances so I can get the changes through…

Azure: An unexpected VIP Swap ERRORhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,2fb04e40-fa40-49f9-b4ce-f1a58f63adf5.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/01/29/AzureAnUnexpectedVIPSwapERROR.aspx
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:23:24 GMT<p>
<strong><font size="3">Windows Azure cannot perform a VIP swap between deployments
that have a different number of endpoints.</font></strong>
</p>
<p>
<font size="1">Which begs the question – what happens as part of an upgrade if you
add-endpoints???</font>
</p>
<p>
So clearly the VIP Swap operation is not a simple process.
</p>
<p>
Now off to delete some production instances so I can get the changes through… <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-disappointedsmile" style="border-top-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none" alt="Disappointed smile" src="http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/Azure-An-unexpected-VIP-Swap-ERROR_12C30/wlEmoticon-disappointedsmile_2.png">
</p>
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Recently there’s been an update to the ‘on-premise’ AppFabric for Windows Server.

This allows a backend provider
to be used on the cache servers to assist with retrieving and storing data to a backend,
such as a database. Read-through enables the cache to "read-through" to a backend
in the context of a Get request. Write-behind enables updates to cached data to be
saved asynchronously to the backend. For more information, see Creating
a Read-Through / Write-Behind Provider (AppFabric 1.1 Caching).

Graceful Shutdown

This is useful for moving data
from a single cache hosts to rest of the servers in the cache cluster before shutting
down the cache host for maintenance. This helps to prevent unexpected loss of cached
data in a running cache cluster. This can be accomplished with the Graceful parameter
of the Stop-CacheHost Windows PowerShell command.

New ASP.NET session state and
output caching providers are available. The new session state provider has support
for the lazy-loading of individual session state items using AppFabric Caching as
a backing store. This makes sites that have a mix of small and large session state
data more efficient, because pages that don't need large session state items won't
incur the cost of sending this data over the network. For more information, see Using
the ASP.NET 4 Caching Providers for AppFabric 1.1.

A new dataCacheClients section
is available that allows you to specify multiple named dataCacheClient sections
in an application configuration file. You can then programmatically specify which
group of cache client settings to use at runtime. For more information, see Application
Configuration Settings (AppFabric 1.1 Caching).

Hi folks, we’ve set a cracking pace into 2012 and are in need of an additional team
member.

If you love technology, we love technology and I’d love to hear from you to be part
of my team.

You will be stimulated, constantly thinking and challenged – azure, integration, biztlak,
sql, windows phone 7 and many other technology areas you’ll be exposed to. Integration
is all about the glue we use to achieve the result.

Position: Technical BizTalk Developerhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,8542c9c1-5f48-4040-9375-7a98d98a28f4.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/01/11/PositionTechnicalBizTalkDeveloper.aspx
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:32:16 GMT<p>
Hi folks, we’ve set a cracking pace into 2012 and are in need of an additional team
member.
</p>
<p>
If you love technology, we love technology and I’d love to hear from you to be part
of my team.
</p>
<p>
You will be stimulated, constantly thinking and challenged – azure, integration, biztlak,
sql, windows phone 7 and many other technology areas you’ll be exposed to. Integration
is all about the glue we use to achieve the result.
</p>
<p>
If you’re keen for a chat check out the blurb - <a href="http://www.breeze.net/about/jobs.aspx">http://www.breeze.net/about/jobs.aspx</a>
</p>
<p>
Cheers,
</p>
<p>
Mick.
</p>
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Thought I’d start off the year with a bang around Azure and what’s been happening
in the land of Integration.

The presentation will show how to use Microsoft Windows Azure to be the cornerstone
of your integration strategy, whether it’s a small piece or larger deployment. Find
out what new tools you can use to extend your existing toolbox and the best way to
use them.

This session will cover:

- Strategies on complementing your on-premise <-> cloud integration and what
tool to use when.

- High availability solutions with a demo of fault tolerance.

- Casting an eye what’s around the corner to new features coming out of Azure Labs
such as EAI, EAI Bridges, EDI – azure style and new XML over HTTP endpoints.

I’m presenting this month at the Windows Azure Sydney User Group (WASUG)http://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/PermaLink,guid,e53c7f1f-b905-4781-a946-0d13c4ab0a52.aspxhttp://blogs.breeze.net/mickb/2012/01/09/ImPresentingThisMonthAtTheWindowsAzureSydneyUserGroupWASUG.aspx
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:18:16 GMT<p>
Thought I’d start off the year with a bang around Azure and what’s been happening
in the land of Integration.
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
So I contacted a <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/conorbrady" target="_blank">Conor
Brady</a> to see what was cooking.
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
The user group is meeting <strong>next Thursday 19th Jan 2012</strong>.
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
Here’s the blurb…..
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
-----------------------------------------
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
<strong>'Integration using Windows Azure Application Integration Services'</strong>
<p>
Local Integration &amp; Training guru Mick Badran CTO at Breeze Training &amp; Consulting
and veteran BizTalk Server MVP will present on 'Integration using Windows Azure Application
Integration Services'
<p>
The presentation will show how to use Microsoft Windows Azure to be the cornerstone
of your integration strategy, whether it’s a small piece or larger deployment. Find
out what new tools you can use to extend your existing toolbox and the best way to
use them.
<p>
This session will cover:
<p>
- Strategies on complementing your on-premise &lt;-&gt; cloud integration and what
tool to use when.
<p>
- High availability solutions with a demo of fault tolerance.
<p>
- Casting an eye what’s around the corner to new features coming out of Azure Labs
such as EAI, EAI Bridges, EDI – azure style and new XML over HTTP endpoints.
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
------------------------------------------
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
Here’s the link to REGISTER - <a title="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2739308345" href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2739308345">http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2739308345</a>
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
See you there!
<p>
&nbsp;
<p>
Mick.
</p>
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